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The oldest known copy is an Arabic version, of which half has been lost, but one set of pages is currently in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, comprising 59 folios from the second volume of the work.
Title: The Jami‘ al-Tawarikh of Rashid al-Din. Date: dated 714 AH (1314–15 AD) Location: Tabriz, Iran. Materials: ink, translucent and opaque watercolour, gold and silver on paper. Dimensions: 60 folios; 43.5 x 30cm. Accession Number: MSS 727
The Collection owns a section of what is, without doubt, one of the most important illustrated medieval manuscripts from either East or West. The Jami‘ al-tawarikh or ‘Compendium of Chronicles’ was written by the 14th-century court historian Rashid al‑Din, under the patronage of the Ilkhanids.
One of the most celebrated surviving codices of the Jami‘ al-Tawarikh from the lifetime of Rashid alDin is an Arabic copy, dated 714 AH/1314–15 CE, now divided between the collections of the Edinburgh University Library (Or.MS.20) and the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art in London (MSS727).
- Yuka Kadoi
Mongol soldiers, in Jami al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, 1305-1306. Mountains between India and China, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. The Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh (Persian / Arabic: جامع التواريخ, lit. ' a complete History') is a work of literature and history, produced in the Mongol Ilkhanate. [1]
The Nasser D. Khalili Collection is the greatest collection of Islamic art in private hands. Among its holdings of manuscripts is a fragmentary copy in Arabic of the Jami al-Tawarikh or Universal History, one of the greatest illustrated medieval manuscripts to have survived from either East or West.
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The Khalili Collection owns one of the most important illustrated medieval manuscripts in the world, the Jami al-Tawarikh, or 'Compendium of Chronicles, ' which was written by the 14th...
